monochrome
52 weeks photo challenge: week 9 -patterns
Taking the camera out for a stroll with the intention to “see” curves and shadows…which created patterns. Image submitted in response to The Girl That Dreams Awake’s photo challenge.
oh how I wish they would stay
Tu Fu to Tao-Chien Across the Centuries
Gone in a flash the bright flowers.
Old. How I wish they would stay!
Why can’t these present things
Be back in our younger days?
Drinking – sets free the mind
Writing – unfolds the heart
We would meet, Tao, in this thought
Though we cannot meet in time.
~Tu Fu (712-770)
obscure
flower of the day: black-eyed susan
weekly photo challenge: frame
I’m thinking this image of a passing tourist bus reflected in a window fits this week’s theme: Frame; especially in the lower left corner.
100 days…73rd day
If someone asks
about the mind of this monk,
say it is no more than
a passage of wind
in the vast sky.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…58th day
Within but a single night
The cherry blossoms vanish
And are completely gone
~Issa*
*cited:
100 days…53rd day
The path is hidden
by Dharma,
invisible,
but memories of you
lead me onward
ah, the deep woods
Ah, the deep woods –
so quiet one can hear
blossoms fall
~Shinkei*
100 days…30th day
*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
Trans: S Carter
a meeting…
where the rivers meet
there seems to be a quietness –
the clear water
~Buson*
two souls meet
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
wordless wednesday
hangin’ out
a meditative journey 
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